Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D.
was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University
of Vienna Medical School.

1940-42 Frankl was director of the Neurological
Department of the Rothschild Hospital

During World War II he spent 3 years in various concentration camps,
including Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Dachau.

1946-70 he was director of the Vienna
Neurological Policlinic.

He was Visiting Professor at Harvard and at universities in Pittsburgh,
San Diego and Dallas. The U.S. International University in California installed
a special chair for logotherapy - this is the psychotherapeutic school founded
by Frankl, often called the "Third Viennese School" (after Freud's psychoanalysis
and Adler's individual psychology.) He received 29 honorary doctorates from
universities in all parts of the world.

The American Psychiatric Association bestowed upon him the Oskar Pfister Award.

Frankl authored 39 books which to date (2016) have been published in 48 languages.
His last two books are "Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning" and
"Viktor Frankl - Recollections", both published in 1997.
Up to 1997 the book "Man's Search for Meaning" had sold over nine
million copies in the USA alone. According to a survey conducted by the
Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club it belongs to "the ten
most influential books in America." (New York Times, November 20, 1991).
And the readers of Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" newspaper voted for "Man's Search
for Meaning as "one of the ten books to be passed to the twenty-first century"
(Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, 2000/11/30)
List of all books by Viktor Frankl

The literature on Logotherapy has grown to such an extent that a complete
bibliography is impossible. A regularly updated list of publications on
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis may be accessed here:
Online Bibliography

Frankl held lectures at 209 universities on all 5 continents.

According to the American Journal of Psychiatry, his
work is "perhaps the most
significant thinking since Freud and Adler."

Viktor
Frankl was appointed Honorary Member of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences.

Frankl held the Solo Flight Certificate and the Mountain Guide badge of the
Alpine Club "Donauland".
Three difficult climbing trails (on the Rax and
Peilstein mountains) were named after him.

In 1995 Frankl received the Honorary Citizenship of his native city Vienna.

PROFESSORSHIPS

Distinguished Professor of Logotherapy,
U.S. International University, San Diego, California

University of Pittsburgh

University of Dallas, Texas

Harvard University, Cambridge

HONORARY DOCTOR DEGREES

Loyola University,
Chicago (1970)

Edgecliffe College, Cincinnati (1970)

Rockford College, Illinois (1972)

Mount Mary College, Wisconsin (1984)

Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (1984)

Universidad Andres Bello, Caracas (1984)

University of South Africa (1984)

Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires (1985)

Universidad Catolica Argentina, Buenos Aires (1985)

Universidad de Buenos Aires (1985)

Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala (1985)

University of Vienna (1986)

Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina (1986)

Universidad Nacional de Entre Rios, Argentina (1986)

Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina (1986)

Universidad del Aconcagua, Argentina (1986)

Universidade de Brasilia (1988)

University of Haifa, Israel (1988)

International Academy for Philosophy in Liechtenstein (1989)

University of Kopenhagen (1989)

University of Pretoria, South Africa (1990)

Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Santiago de Chile (1991)

University of Santa Clara, California (1991)

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (1992)

University of Prague (1994)

University of Lublin, Poland (1994)

University of Salzburg (1994)

Semmelweis-University Budapest (1996)

Ohio State University, Columbus (1997)

HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Societies for Neurology and Psychiatry in Austria, Peru and Guatemala

AWARDS

John F. Kennedy Star

Oscar Pfister Award of the American Psychiatric Association

Theodor Billroth Medal

Albert Schweitzer Medal

Cardinal Innitzer Prize

City of Vienna Prize for Science

Honorary Ring of the City of Vienna

Honorary Citizen of the Capital of Texas

Great Cross of Merit with Star (Germany)

Lifetime Achievement Award of the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare

Nomination for the Peace Nobel Prize by the Pontifical
University of Porto Alegre (Brazil), a Texan university and the
"Evolution of Psychotherapy Foundation" (Phoenix, Arizona).

Viktor Frankl Catedra at the University of Caracas (Venezuela)

Frankl received the highest honor the Republic of Austria can confer
on a scientist; it is the membership (since 1981) in the "Curia of the Great Badge of Honour",
an Order restricted to 18 Austrians and 18 citizens of other countries.